Read more below about our Covid-19 therapeutic support packages for families, creative arts therapy for young people, training webinars and online assessments:

Therapeutic Supportfor families

We are offering three different Therapeutic Support packages for adoptive and SGO families to be funded by the emergency Covid-19 fund:

Sensory
Integration

Home education
strategies and support

Parent Support

Each package will run for
12 weeks and will offer weekly support tailored to the family’s needs including:

A video call or
telephone initial parent session

A regular
weekly video call or telephone support

Email support
with specific strategies and additional disseminated information when
appropriate

Each virtual support package costs £4000 and will offer support to families as described below. Please email us at contact@familyfutures.co.uk, or call us on 020 7354 4161 to refer or discuss requirements.

1. Sensory Integration

Parenting and life at home are
even more challenging than usual with the lack of normal routines to fall back
on, isolation from family and friends and additional anxiety caused by the
pandemic situation.

This package offers support
for families who are finding their child’s sensory issues are brought to the
fore by the stresses of the current situation and for families experiencing
increased child to parent violence at this time.

Under stress a child
with Sensory Integration issues may regress and become more needy, may become
more sensitive to sound, noise and touch, or feel the need to be
constantly on the move and become easily irritated and frustrated.

Family Futures’ Occupational
Therapists have created this Covid-19 Sensory Integration package to help parents
and carers embed sensory rich activities, to provide a sensory diet and routine
for their child and to provide parent support to reduce stress on the family at
this time.

2. Home Education Strategies and Support

School
closures have increased the pressure on parents and carers who are at home 24/7
with a traumatised child. Tired parents and carers are stretched thin, working from
home with financial, health and other anxieties arising from the current pandemic.
Home schooling in these circumstances can be met with resistance and
frustration and is adding to the pressures on adoptive and SGO families.

Family Futures’ Covid-19
Home Education support package will provide each family with strategies for
home learning which are focused on the child’s particular learning and
emotional needs. Structured learning tasks and free expression through drawings,
stories and other creative activities aim to overcome emotional barriers to
learning, promote self-esteem and family wellbeing.

3. Parent Support

This package offers weekly online therapy sessions for parents to consider how they are responding to and managing the situation individually, as a couple (if appropriate), and as parents. The sessions will offer practical advice and will be combined with a weekly online family session involving parents and children, working with their Family Futures therapists to play games, reflect on any difficulties, support and strengthen relationships, and explore how the trauma and upheaval of COVID-19 is impacting the family system.

Virtual creative arts therapy for young people

These are available as group or individual sessions. Please email us to discuss a package of tailored support.

Family Futures understands that fear and anxiety about the Covid-19 disease can be overwhelming and cause strong emotions in children and young people. These emotions can lead to sadness, anger, or frustration and talking about them can be hard.

Our virtual creative arts package for small groups can help alleviate some of this distress and enable young people to express their anxieties and current experience of the virus though using art materials or virtual whiteboards that can be shared with the therapist. This package can also be translated into individual one to one sessions if the child or young person feels more comfortable with this and can support the child and young person with self care strategies.

Online assessments

£2,500

Our online assessment includes tailored video sessions, psychological screening questionnaires and a report which includes formulation and recommendations based on the child’s needs identified in the assessment. Further information about the Family Futures assessment can be found on our Assessment page.

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